• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.53-54
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• 2014

MMC(Modular Multilevel Converter)는 여러 개의 Power Module을 직렬로 연결하여 정현파에 가까운 고전압의 파형을 얻을 수 있는 토폴로지로 대용량 전력변환 분야의 요구를 만족하면서 전력 품질을 향상시킬 수 있어 근래에 상당히 주목받고 있다. 당사에서는 5Mvar급 STATCOM(STATic synchronization COMpensator)을 MMC 형태로 제작하였다. 1개의 Cell 제어기는 6대의 Power Module의 제어와 보호를 담당하여 DC 전압을 센싱하여야 한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 SPI(Serial Peripheral Interface) 통신을 이용하여 Power Module을 제어하기 위해 DC 센싱 방법에 대해 설명한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.903-906
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• 2009

In this contribution, we designed a serial port interface (SPI) suitable for embedded systems, especially for Bluetooth baseband. Proposed architecture is compatible for the APB bus in AMBA bus architecture. The 8-bit design of the SPI module is in charge of transferring the data and the instructions between the external devices and the coprocessors. We adopted the cyclic redundancy check method for the error correction. Also, we provided the interface for multimedia cards. The designed SPI module was automatically synthesized, placed, and routed. Implementation was performed through the Altera FPGA and well operated at 25MHz clock frequency.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.553-563
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• 2012

Serial peripheral interface (SPI) has been identified as a bottleneck in many wireless sensing systems today. SPI is used almost universally as the physical connection between the microcontroller unit (MCU) and radios, storage devices, and many types of sensors. Virtually all wireless sensor nodes today perform up to twice as many bus transactions as necessary to transfer a given piece of data, as an MCU must serve as the bus master in all transactions. To eliminate this bottleneck, we propose the master-handoff protocol. After the MCU initiates reading from the source slave device and writing to the sink slave device, the MCU as a master becomes a slave, and either the source or the sink slave becomes the temporary master. Experiment results show that this master-handoff technique not only cuts the data transfer time in half, but, more importantly, also enables a superlinear energy reduction.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.2327-2332
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• 2011

Recently, the increase of loading amount on cargo ships due to the automation of loading process results in much complex ship operation. For this reason, NMEA-0183 based on RS-422,485 and NMEA-2000 based on CAN communication methods have been usually used as a standardized method in the marin electric interfacing equipments. In this paper, a general NMEA-0183 protocol was designed to support 7-channel NMEA-0183 serial communication data, which can receive 3-channel 16 bits ADC and 2-channel pulse using SPI(Serial Peripheral Interface). In particular, this method was designed for ship communication requires 7 important factors. Also in this study, using the minimization of the proposed method and realizing the monitoring system based on PC, the effectiveness of multichannel indicator system was proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.642-646
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• 2004

시스템 패킷 인터페이스 4레벨 2단계(System Packet Interface Leve1 4 Phase 2)는 10Gbps 이더넷 응용뿐만 아니라, OC-192 대역폭의 ATM 및 POS를 통한 패킷 또는 셀 전송을 위한 물리계층과 링크계층 소자간의 인터페이스이다. 본 논문에서는 시스템 패킷 인터페이스 4레벨 2단계(SPI-4.2)에 대한 연구와 C언어를 이용한 성능평가를 토대로 모듈을 VHDL언어를 이용하여 설계하였다. 성능평가시 확인된 짧은 패킷이 유입되었을 때 PCW와 다음 PCW의 거리를 16바이트 이상을 유지하기 위해 ICW가 삽입되어 많은 오버헤드를 발생시켰다. 작은 패킷이 유입되었을 때 오버헤드를 최소화하기 위해 ICW생성을 최대한 제한하게 설계하여 짧은 패킷 유입시의 오버헤드를 감소하는 SPI-4.2 인터페이스 수신부 모듈을 설계하였다. 설계한 모듈은 라인당 720Mbps를 지원하여 총 대역폭이 11.52Gb/s의 전송률을 나타내어 더욱 안정적으로 패킷을 인터페이스 할 수 있다. XilinxISE 5.1i 툴을 이용하여 VHDL언어로 설계하였고, Model_SIM 5.6a를 이용하여 시뮬레이션 하였다. SPI-4.2 인터페이스 모듈은 기가비트/테라비트 라우터, 광학 크로스바 스위치 및 SONET/SDH 기반의 수신 시스템에서 라인카드로 사용할 경우 적합할 것으로 사료된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.639-642
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• 2009

LN2440SBC 임베디드 보드는 ARM 코어 방식의 S3C2440A CPU를 가진 임베디드 컴퓨터 시스템이다. 이 시스템에 부착한 터치스크린 기능을 가진 TFT LCD 키트인 LP35의 구동을 위해서는 ARM 코어, LCD 컨트롤러, 그리고 LCD 장치와의 통신을 위한 SPI(serial peripheral interface)의 초기화와 LCD 화면에 이미지, 선, 도형 같은 것들의 출력을 가능하게 해주는 그래픽스 라이브러리 함수들이 필요하다. 본 논문은 이같은 기능들을 가지는 LP35를 위한 드라이버의 구현 방법을 기술한다. 특히, 드라이버 구동을 위한 초기화 방법과 화면 출력 기능들의 구현을 위해 필요한 픽셀 디스플레이 함수의 구현에 중점을 두어 설명한다. 또한 픽셀 디스플레이 함수를 이용한 기본 그래픽스 라이브러리 함수들에 대해 설명한다. 드라이버의 초기화를 위해서는 클럭 속도 설정, 범용 입출력 핀(GPIO)을 LCD와 SPI 용으로의 할당. SPI의 마스터/슬레이브 및 보오 레이트 설정, LCD 컨트롤러 레지스터 설정을 통한 LCD 기능 선택. 그리고 SPI를 통한 LCD 장치로의 파워 온(power on) 명령 전달 등이 수행된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.641-641
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• 2006

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.835-844
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• 2021

In this paper, a power facility communication control device was designed to autonomously determine and separate the fault section through communication between power facilities in the smart grid distribution system. In the power facility communication control device, the control module was designed as a DSP to measure three-phase voltage and current, and the communication module was designed as an embedded-based Raspberry Pi to determine the fault section and realize the fault section separation through communication between power facilities. Communication between DSP and Raspberry Pi was designed by SPI communication, and communication between Raspberry Pi was designed based on Wi-Fi. Finally, a performance evaluation system based on three power facility communication control devices was built, and simulation verification was conducted for various fault events that may occur on the distribution line. As a result of the test evaluation, it was possible to confirm the effectiveness of the design methodology of the communication control device by showing the required response of the communication control device to all test cases.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.407-417
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• 2013

In this paper, a reconfigurable peripheral unit for LED lighting communication is presented. Embedded lighting devices require various communication protocols. Usually, serial communication protocols and lighting control communication protocols such as DALI, DMX512, UART, SPI, IrDA, etc. are used in lighting devices. When the requirements of communication protocols are satisfied with separate IPs, the cost and the power consumption can considerably increase. We propose a reconfigurable communication peripheral unit which uses analysis of signal formats of the protocols. The gate count of the reconfigurable peripheral unit uses only 57% of the gate count of the separate implementation. Also, in this paper, a mapping table based DALI-ZigBee interfacing method for flexible lighting network configurations is proposed. Using this method, various DALI-ZigBee network systems can be easily set up. An LED lighting system platform is implemented to verify the operation of the DALI-ZigBee interfacing method. The reconfigurable peripheral unit and the DALI-ZigBee interfacing method can be efficiently used to implement various wired/wireless lighting communication systems.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.1172-1175
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• 2020

Automotive ECU integrates CPU core, IVN controller, memory interface, sensor interface, I/O interface, and so on. Current automotive ECUs are often developed with proprietary processor architectures. However, demends for standard processors such as ARM and RISC-V increase rapidly for saftware compatibility in autonomous vehicles and connected cars. In this paper, an automotive ECU is designed for parking assist system based on RISC-V with open instruction set architecture. It includes 32b RISC-V CPU core, IVN controllers such as CAN and LIN, memory interfaces such as ROM and SRAM, and I/O interfaces such as SPI, UART, and I2C. Fabricated in 65nm CMOS technology, its operating frequency, area, and gate count are 50MHz, 0.37㎟, and 55,310 gates, respectively.